John Taylor (left) and Peter Sutcliffe (right) are among the UK's most dangerous people

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Here we take a look at the other prisoners serving whole life tariffs in British prisons. While some were given life terms by judges, others were ordered to be detained until they die by the Home Secretary at the time.

Some of them are whiling away the rest of their days in HMP Wakefield, a high-security prison which is around a dozen miles from Leeds city centre and also known as 'Monster Mansion' due to the large number of high-profile, high-risk sex offenders and murderers held there.

While working as a rent boy in 1974, he garrotted labourer John Farrell after he allegedly showed him photos of children he abused.

Maudsley was declared not fit to stand trial and sent to Broadmoor Hospital, a high-security psychiatric hospital in Berkshire.

In 1977, he and another inmate took fellow patient David Francis, a convicted child abuser, hostage and tortured him to death.

After being convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation that he should never be released, he was sent to Wakefield prison.

It was there that he killed two fellow prisoners, slitting killer Salney Darwood's throat and stabbing Bill Roberts and smashing his head against a wall.

He told a prison officer that the next roll call would be two short.

He was falsely accused of eating part of the brain of one of three men he killed in prison, which earned him the nickname 'Hannibal the Cannibal' among the British press.

Now aged 65, he has spent most of his sentence in solitary confinement.

In 1983, he was deemed to dangerous for a normal cell and authorities built a two-cell unit in the basement of Wakefield prison, which is said to resemble Hannibal Lecter's in the film The Silence of the Lambs.

A number of times he applied for the terms of his solitary confinement to be relaxed to allow interaction with people and an animal or to be allowed to kill himself.

In 2013, it was reported that the unit was upgraded to six cells and his neighbours include at least three child killers.

Anthony Arkwright

Anthony Arkwright was just 21 when he went on a two-day killing spree in South Yorkshire in 1988, hacking and battering to death his elderly grandfather and two other people.An 'evil fantasist' who had a desire to be as 'famous' as Jack the Ripper, he was convicted of all three murders and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 25 years the following year.

It was later increased to a whole life term by a Home Secretary.

He was also suspected of a fourth murder committed around the same time but never charged.

He's now in his early fifties.

Mark Robinson

At the age of 17, Mark Robinson murdered Patricia Anne Wagner, the older woman he was planning to sleep with.

He strangled the mother-of-three to death after she threatened to tell his mother about their affair and her body was found by her seven-year-old son.

When he was released in 1989, he started a relationship with Sharon Morley but after he discovered a photo of her former boyfriend he beat and stabbed her to death.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment at his trial and was later issued with a whole life tariff by a Home Secretary.

Mark Hobson murdered four people during an eight-day killing spree in 2002 in North Yorkshire, including his girlfriend Claire Sanderson and her twin Diane - both of whom he mutilated - and an elderly couple.

Diane's nipple had been bitten off and police believe Hobson may have eaten it.

The twins' bodies were discovered by Diane's boyfriend.

Hobson, a father and a former nightclub doorman and binman who had a history of violence and addition, was arrested after an eight-day nationwide manhunt.

Police discovered a list of planned victims that also included his girlfriend's parents and the parents of his ex-wife.

In 2005, he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation that he should never be released. His appeal later that year was rejected.

In 2002, Hobson had stabbed a love rival five times in the chest in a daylight attack in front of shoppers.

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